30 April 2011

Summer Reading List

Here's my list of things I've read this year. Included are two titles I split between 2010 and 2011.

2010-2011The Boy of Summer by Roger KahnDeath in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

2011The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg LarssonPlay it as it Lies by Joan DidionRagged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr.Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence WeschlerThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Female Marine by "Lucy Brewer" (Nathaniel Hill Wright)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyHoly Land by D.J. WaldieMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesEating the Dinosaur by Chuck KlostermanShoeless Joe by W.P. KinsellaThe Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. SouthworthThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacTortilla Flat by John SteinbeckThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboksyAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Heroic Slave by Frederick DouglassBreakfast of Champions by Kurt VonnegutThe Land of Little Rain by Mary AustinMcTeague by Frank NorrisThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

My goal at the beginning of the year was to read 30 books. I've upped that to 56, a book a week.

Here's what I plan on reading this summer (and beyond). I include books I've already started:

The Natural by Bernard MalamudLords and Ladies by Terry PratchettUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryDear John by Nicholas SparksThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneThe Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W.P. KinsellaA Scientific Romance by Ronald WrightThe Oxygen Man by Steve YarbroughThe Good Brother by Chris OffuttNed Kelly by Robert DreweWinter Journey by Isabel ColegateThe Visitor by Maeve BrennanGermania by Brendan McNallyNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (re-read)On the Road by Jack KerouacHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerCatch-22 by Joseph Heller (re-read)The Sun of Rises by Ernest HemingwayZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleCandide by VoltaireDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Armies of the Night by Norman MailerThe Secret Life of Cyndy Garvey by Cynthia Garvey